My use case: I like to have all my emails stored locally just in case some disaster happens with the copies in the cloud; I also get to have both personal and work email addresses, from different providers, in one organized and unified interface, and the same goes for tasks, calendars and contacts; and some features from big web clients are sometimes too nosy for my taste (suggested replies, pushing their calendar, messaging, tasks and contacts products, etc)

• You have an offline copy of your email records (and calendar and contacts) on your own computer without needing internet that no one can take away or lose.
• It helps if you regularly check multiple email accounts, such as personal and work, all in one place.
• Email integrates with some applications, such as Photos apps via the built-in share menu.
• Advanced features like email filters, mailing groups, etc, that may not be available on webmail.

You login once, you’re set for years. Combined inbox from all your accounts so that you can see everything in one place. You only need to familiarise yourself with one interface.

For me, it’s a matter of taste and philosophy. IMAP and POP3 are like ActivityPub, a public and widely-adopted protocol standard for their purpose. It represents my ownership of my email.

There’s no unnecessary tracking or metrics while I draft my mail. I don’t need Microsoft and Google’s advertisements. If they decide to suddenly purge my almost 20 years worth of electronic mail, then I still have a backup copy.

Thunderbird is a really useful client too. You can even participate in matrix chatrooms through it.

The message UI of K9 was changed and I think the app already implemented the auto-setup of accounts from thunderbird, otherwise its still the same app

I wish there was a beta channel flatpak.